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Report on Distribution and Freight Logistic

   

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Running head: DISTRIBUTION AND FREIGHT LOGISTICDistribution and Freight LogisticName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:

2DISTRIBUTION AND FREIGHT LOGISTICExecutive SummaryThis present report focuses on the management of the freight logistics in the context ofMelbourne Port. However, tackling of the big ships and high operation cost is the major barrierto such logistics management. On the other hand, environmental sustainability issue is anotherbig challenge of such port. It has been received that government has taken initiatives to improvethe infrastructure of the port by investing more. Therefore, automation in the port will be aneffective freight strategy for this port to maximize the physical distribution of the commoditiesand to reduce the logistic challenges. Therefore, by following the rules of national port strategywill be effective to manage the freight logistic effectively.

3DISTRIBUTION AND FREIGHT LOGISTICTable of Contents1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................41.1 Project Objectives..................................................................................................................41.2 Questions...............................................................................................................................52.0 Freight logistic and Identification of the challenges..................................................................52.1 Freight logistics of the Melbourne Port.................................................................................52.2 Key Challenges of the Freight Logistics in context of Melbourne........................................62.3 Commodity, import and export process of Port of Melbourne..............................................63.0 Methodology..............................................................................................................................73.1 Selection of the Port of Melbourne........................................................................................73.2 Collection of the data.............................................................................................................84.0 Result and Discussion................................................................................................................84.1 Identification of the various activities and the movement of the commodities in context ofPort of Melbourne........................................................................................................................84.2 Discussion of the value addition in context of commodity supply chain..............................94.3 Identification of the logistical bottlenecks and disruption in the supply chain management...................................................................................................................................................104.4 Effective strategies and Government intervention in order to reduce the logistic disruption...................................................................................................................................................11

4DISTRIBUTION AND FREIGHT LOGISTIC4.5 Failure of the port logistics and the government interventions in the context of Port ofMelbourne..................................................................................................................................124.6 Recommendations................................................................................................................134.7 Development of the freight strategy to improve the physical distribution and the marketfailure in context of Melbourne Port.........................................................................................145.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................15References......................................................................................................................................17

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